The best Marlene Dietrich’s comedy movies

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

27/12/1901- 06/05/1992
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Marlene Dietrich’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Marlene Dietrich.
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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1964
  • Character: Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.

Angel

Angel
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 29/10/1937
  • Character: Maria 'Angel' Barker, aka Mrs. Brown
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again
7.6/10
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair
7.3/10
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Desire

Desire
7.1/10
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman
6.9/10
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners
6.5/10
Beautiful chanteuse 'Bijou' (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia's ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant's lap. As Bijou 'drifts through the standards', the fleet's Admiral reckons the US Navy "already has enough destroyers". A Marlene classic with songs by Frederick Hollander and a young and promising John Wayne.

Follow the Boys

Follow the Boys
5.8/10
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

Breakdowns of 1942

Breakdowns of 1942
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1956
  • Character: Maria de Crevecoeur
Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino (Vittorio De Sica) and Maria (Marlene Dietrich) pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to a wealthy widower (Arthur O'Connell) and his daughter (Natalie Trundy). A compulsive gambler who owes several anxious investors a small fortune, Dino has trouble cutting his losses, no matter how bad the losing streak. [Netflix]

The Imaginary Baron

The Imaginary Baron
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1927
  • Character: Sophie

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/07/1941
  • Character: Countess Claire Ledoux, aka Lili
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/01/2013
  • Character: Herself (archive footage)
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!

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